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Groot Constantia, the oldest wine estate in South Africa. On 2 February 1659 the founder of Cape Town, Jan van Riebeeck, produced the first wine recorded in South Africa. [1] In 1685, the Constantia estate was established in a valley facing False Bay by the Governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel. His 'Vin de Constance' soon acquired a good ...
Western Cape - A large multi-regional designation covering every appellation except those in the Northern Cape. KwaZulu-Natal - The whole Province was designated as a Geographical Unit in August 2005. Eastern Cape - The Eastern Cape Province was designated South Africa’s newest wine region in 2009. [3] Limpopo; Northern Cape
The Eastern Cape followed soon after through the pioneering efforts of Ronnie and Janet Vehorn. In 2009, Harrison Hope Wine Estate was registered as the first wine estate in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The estate made history again with its 2009 Merlot becoming the first certified estate wine ever produced in the Eastern Cape region.
A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of tanks known as tank farms.
The Western Cape region has been famous for its wine since the late 18th century and exports wine all over the world. In 2010 the Western Cape exported 374.8 million litres of wine. [52] With 100,200ha of vines under cultivation the province is the ninth largest exporter of wine in the world. [8]
As of the mid-1990s, more than 1.5 million tons of grapes were used domestically in South Africa's renowned wine industry, which dates back to the seventeenth-century vineyards introduced by French Huguenot immigrants. [19] More than 100,000 hectares of land were planted in vineyards as of the mid-1990s, centred primarily in the Western Cape. [19]
Twee Jonge Gezellen (TJ) is a farm, winery and vineyard in the pioneer district of Tulbagh in the Western Cape, South Africa. Translated from Dutch, the name means Two Young Bachelors. [1] The farm was started by two young bachelor cousins in 1710. Locals referred to the farm as "the place where the two young bachelors stay," and the name stuck ...
The Western Cape (Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni; Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. [8]